TransplantedCajun's Profile
How long does it take peas to sprout
I love green peas! unfortunately this year's extended cold and WET weather have conspired with the clay soil, and my seed have turned to fertilizer, oh well, peas really don't care for mud. even the highest row in my garded where I planted them did not yeild a single sprout. Yes, the row was high, and well mounded, but this much rain? should have planted rice! Good luck on the green peas!
Double Digging: Please tell me it's worth it
well, when I started my home garden, I did not have a separated left shoulder, nor had I broken my right forearm. Unfortunately, neither have healed well, so yes, I do use machines for the heavy work, but the garden hoe is still sharp and unerring!
As for raised bed gardening, you can't get a tiller effectively in a raised bed, so those are done by hand, I have four of them now, and am planning on a 20 x 4 raised bed to add next year. Yes, I know, hand gardening is best, but when the scale gets that large, 2 people cannot do that by hand, so fie on me, and I'll use the machines to do the work my hands cannot do.
Cheddar cheese for Popcorn
BINGO! for some reason I had not been able to search this one out! thanks!
Cheddar cheese for Popcorn
This is almost turning into the quest for the holy grail! Years ago, during the early 90's I used to work in a popcorn shop in Memphis, TN. The owner, a man named Paul, got his cheese for popcorn in 5 gallon buckets. I do not know the name of the manufacturer. Sadly, I cannot locate a source for this cheese product. It was melted and two cups were poured over 5 gallons of hot popcorn, and produced a MARVELOUS product. If anyone knows where a product of this sort can be found, I would be very grateful. This is not a powder, it is a meltable,oily gooey cheesy product that buttered, cheesed and salted the corn after popping. No,Kraft Macarroni and Cheese powder does not EVEN approximate this cheese, not even close. I'd love to get some of this cheese, I expect a 5 gallon bucket would be expensive, but perhaps I could sponsor a 'buy in' for some of us if any one knows where to get it, and others are interested. There just is no substitute!
Double Digging: Please tell me it's worth it
There is *Absotively* *Posiloutely* NO doubt that double digging brings about the Eden Curse of the Old Testament back to the foreground -- In the sweat of thy face shalt thou earn thy bread! It is back breaking, ab straining, arm wrenching work BUT nothing else does the job of double digging, it is the foundation of soil preparation, you can't short cut it without suffering a loss of crop yeild and soil tilth. Dig in, double deep, mulch well, amend heavily and your garden will reward your effort no matter where you live. Yes, you will suffer! but you will also gain a great deal both in fitness and in produce!
I like the daikon radish idea! I REALLY like that idea!
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Well, it is a lot of land if you were toitally doing it all by hand, BUT this winter and spring, my gardening buddy and I overhauled a 2 row seeder, and a 2 row cultivator, and invested in a 6' tiller. That takes a lot of the pain out of soil prep and planting, then we use a rototiller to keep the middles free of grass, so it is much less time intensive.
We both feed ourselves, his two son's families, and give a large amount of produce to our church members (many of whom are elderly and cannot farm).
We do plan on a roadside stand to see if we can recoup some of the financial burden of seeds, fertilizer and maintenaince. Last year we gave quite a bit of produce away, and it has returned to us in the form of fish, venison, odd lots of lumber, Gin trash from a cottonseed mill and quite a few buckets of strawberries, blueberries, dewberries, peaches, pears, apples and pecans. Not a bad deal overall!
What food find still haunts you - that you had once and haven't found since?
*drool* Yum* I remember two foods in particular, one was the most incredible 'French-Dip beef sandwich, it was on a 1 1/2 inch wide crispy-chewy baton like roll, with shaved beef and a cole slaw that was shaved, not sliced from cabbage, carrot, onion, with a mayonaise that Johnny's used to make on-site. When you dunked the end of that sanwich into the Au Jus gravy and bit into that sandwich, the crusty bread just broke and the hot beefy juices and cole slaw just simply had a "Mardi Gras" parade all the way down the Red Lane!!! That was the most fabulous sandwich I have ever had! I must have eaten 100's of them while in college! Alas, Johnny's is gone now, along with the French Dip Sandwich that was sold for a buck fifty!
Second most memorable....... My Aunt Margie's Huckleberry pie! She had a dark brown crust, made with brown sugar, that just flaked and flaked and flaked! The huckleberries were sweetened with honey. The combination of her flaky brown crust and the honeyed huckleberries were richer than Baklava!
Oh yeah! those two items still stand out even after 40 years!
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1015 is a type of onion, a "Texas Sweetie" type, very crisp, sweet, mild, mellow flavor with just a mere suggestion of citrusy taste, "Mahvelous" dosen't overpower any food it accompanies
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ROFL! :) You'd have to see the zoo! We have a dog, 4 guinea pigs, *had* a cat, til the poor thing found out why NOT to cross the road (now ensconced at the east corner of the garden, permanently). Yeah, I suppose it might be a veggie farm, but we have fun anyway!
OK I got a question, any body else growing cranberry beans besides me? They are in my opinion, the finest dry bean that can be grown. We had a 'mess' of them last week, served with smoked sausage, Cornbread, 1015 sweet onions, jalapeno peppers, garnished with sour cream, chives and jalapenos, washed down by vast quantities of minted tea....... OY it was good!
What's your favorite home grown bean? How do you fix it?
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Ali, yes, dogs have an innate ability to run totally past exhaustion! They are so much fun to have around, excellent conversationalists ( I pity anyone who has not had an intense one on one with their canine companion). I have 1 home garden, 25' x 75' with a side patch 30x 25, so it's kind of shaped like my home state, Louisiana! Reminds me of home. My neighbor, John and I 'sharecrop' two truck patches one is150' wide and 350 foot long, the other is 250' long and 140' wide. So, Yeah, we have a fair amount of land under cultivation. Here in TN, this year we have had an extended spring, very cool and WET for our area. Some crops which normally do quite well here such as potatoes, have drowned, as have my eggplants. I'll have to purchase some eggplants to replace them, my poor hand nurtured seedlings................ It's still way too cool wet to attempt okra yet, and my sweet potatoes?? who knows, maybe I'll get enough slips to transplant next month, but if we keep getting this monsoon............. hmm, sweet potatoes and aquaculture?? I dunno about that!
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Greetings fellow garden grubbers! I have loved to garden since I was 12, I'm addicted to dirt! This is my third year gardening in Tennessee, I dulled my first hoe in Louisiana, and there is a bit of difference between the Sand hills of home in North La. and the Clay Hills of W. Tn.
Fortunately the area I live in allows me to grow a massive variety of vegetables, so I am able to supply the vast majority of non meat foods we eat during the year. I am growing Kentucky Blue Pole beans, Asparagus beans, Jet Star tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, Black Beauty eggplant, Many varieties of summer and winter squash, pumpkins, canteloupes, Canary melons, Watermelons, including Moon and Stars and Sugarbaby. Also carrots, beets, brocolli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts -- all them cruciferous veggies! Shoe peg corn ( the smallest recorded cornfield in Lauderdale County!) I'll have to tell that interesting tale some time. I have Italian garlic, Jumbo garlic, Yellow onions, Multiplying onions, lettuce and spinach in my home garden, and with a farming fiend, er, friend, we have two truck patches with sweet corn, Hicory King corn, Roma beans, Cranberry beans, more squash, onions, Okra, tomatoes , pepper plants of several varieties, herbs are basil, dill, sage, and cilantro. Future gardening plans include a 20x4 raised bed cold frame, a 3 tier herb garden, and expanding a mini hot house. I think it may keep me busy....... yeah, pretty sure it will!
I lucked out having a horse farm? Ranch? next door, My neighbor is always willing to give me sh.................. fertilzer for my garden! He's a great guy, really he is! You should all be so lucky!
Alicat, I have a furbaby too, a cockerpoo that follows me up and down each and every row I hoe, till or weed! Poor baby almost wore her legs off today!
